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Slight creasing and edgewear to front cover. Text clean. Corners lightly curled. A gay novice actor recounts his years in Hollywood in the 1980s, including a sexual n encounter with Rock Hudson in his dying days.
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Once you've won a car on a game show, been an actor, owned a phone sex company, been infected with HIV, slept with a movie icon and developed a drug addiction, you've pretty much done the Hollywood thing.
In this true, first-person account of the 1980's, Los Angeles transforms an all-American boy from an actor in commercials plugging fast food to a gay phone line worker pushing fast sex.
King experiences firsthand nearly every gay social milestone of an astonishing decade-drug use, the phone sex trade, the onset of AIDS, Rock Hudson, assisted suicide, anonymous encounters, the early development of AIDS organizations and activism, Magic Johnson's announcement-and shares his experiences with disarming humor and startling candor.
AIDS eventually converts King's plunge into sex and drugs to an increasing awareness of mortality-and a renewed search for meaning.
Title: A Place Like This: A Memoir
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN Number: 0595474756
ISBN-13: 9780595474752
Location Published: Lincoln, Nebraska, iUniverse: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Type: Book
Categories: Other
Seller ID: 503005027
Keywords: drugs., gay. hollywood. film. aids. hiv